ChatGPT Goes Down Again, and the Error Message Tells the Story

Users across multiple languages reported ChatGPT returning upstream connection errors, another reminder of how much daily work now depends on a single provider staying up.

ChatGPT appeared to suffer a service disruption on Tuesday, with users reporting failures across several languages and time zones. The clearest signal came from @justindico, who posted the raw error: "upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. retried and the latest reset reason: remote connection failure." That is not a vague "something went wrong" screen — it is a load balancer or proxy layer failing to reach the backend, the kind of message that points to infrastructure between the user and the model rather than the model itself.

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